Excellent performance and Security with Cisco ASA 5500-X with FirePOWER Services
June 23, 2025

Excellent performance and Security with Cisco ASA 5500-X with FirePOWER Services

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Cisco ASA 5500-X with FirePOWER Services

We use Cisco ASA 5500-X with FirePOWER Services as the edge for the internet for VPN connections, web sites published to the intenet and apps that needs to be accessible from internet. We also use the outside connection as an alternative path in case the main connection to internet fails.

Pros

  • Easy GUI administration
  • VPN remote access and VPN Site to Site are easy to deploy
  • CLI commands remains the same of IOS

Cons

  • More options for layer7 filter
  • Could include IPS and IDS capabilities
  • More patches to remediate vulnerabilities
  • Allow remote connection for home office
  • Reduce the cost of licencing
  • Increase performance and network optimization
Connected with Cisco Umbrella for the DNS protection and Cisco AnnyConnect for the remote access VPN for the end user. In both cases it's a very simple integration a easy to deploy.
The performance is very good, the device works without any disruption, delay or any kind of issue. VPN connections keeps established for hours without problems, the network policies works as expected and you dont see over consumption in the CPU procecess or RAM. When you apply a "deploy" to the configuration sometimes you need to wait a few minutes before the config takes effect
Cisco ASA 5500-X with FirePOWER Services provides a robust product, and one of its advantages over other devices is Cisco's support. The devices have a long lifespan and rarely fail. They are easy to configure and manage, and do they do not require any additional licensing to enable the various features like VPN, URL filtering and the security functions.

Do you think Cisco ASA 5500-X with FirePOWER Services delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with Cisco ASA 5500-X with FirePOWER Services's feature set?

Yes

Did Cisco ASA 5500-X with FirePOWER Services live up to sales and marketing promises?

I wasn't involved with the selection/purchase process

Did implementation of Cisco ASA 5500-X with FirePOWER Services go as expected?

I wasn't involved with the implementation phase

Would you buy Cisco ASA 5500-X with FirePOWER Services again?

Yes

Cisco ASA 5500-X with FirePOWER Services can help you if you are looking for a device to sit on your edge and allow external connections from the internet, like NAT from public IP, VPN remote access, VPN site to site, it is easy to deploy and very reliable. You can use it also as your perimeter for outbound connectios. You don't need to pay for a suscription or extra licences to run this device.

Cisco ASA 5500-X with FirePOWER Services Feature Ratings

Firewall
8.1
Identification Technologies
6
Visualization Tools
Not Rated
Content Inspection
6
Policy-based Controls
7
Active Directory and LDAP
Not Rated
Firewall Management Console
9
Reporting and Logging
9
VPN
10
High Availability
10

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